"I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that."

-- Gene Wilder

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“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
“You cannot underestimate the importance of preparation.”
“Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.”

Source : Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.9, Open Road Media
“Gentle he would be, denied he would not.”
“Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.”
“Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through”

Source : "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.
“Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being. Why do you think this problem keeps coming up in your life, staring you in the face? Do you think you're supposed to ignore it and hide from it and wait for someone else to solve it for you? If you notice it, you own it.”
“Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.”

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